Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

"The Pugwash Conferences take their name from the location of the first meeting, which was held in 1957 in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, birthplace of the American philanthropist Cyrus Eaton, who hosted the meeting. The stimulus for that gathering was a Manifesto issued in 1955 by Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein -- and signed also by Max Born, Percy Bridgman, Leopold Infeld, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Herman Muller, Linus Pauling, Cecil Powell, Joseph Rotblat, and Hideki Yukawa -- which called upon scientists of all political persuasions to assemble to discuss the threat posed to civilization by the advent of thermonuclear weapons. The 1957 meeting was attended by 22 eminent scientists (seven from the United States, three each from the Soviet Union and Japan, two each from the United Kingdom and Canada, and one each from Australia, Austria, China, France, and Poland)."


 * President - Jayantha Dhanapala
 * Secretary General - Paolo Cotta-Ramusino
 * Chair - Saideh Lotfian
 * Executive Director - Jeffrey Boutwell

Pugwash Council for the 2007-2012 Quinquennium
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 * Jayantha Dhanapala
 * Paolo Cotta-Ramusino
 * Jeffrey Boutwell
 * Francesco Calogero
 * Ochieng Adala
 * Sergey Batsanov
 * Adele Buckley
 * Lynn Eden
 * John Finney
 * Galia Golan-Gild
 * Karen Hallberg
 * Peter Jones
 * Mohamed Kadry Said
 * Mustafa Kibaroglu
 * Sverre Lodgaard
 * Saideh Lotfian
 * Riad Malki
 * Miguel Marin-Bosch
 * Talat Masood
 * Amitabh Mattoo
 * Steven Miller
 * Marie Muller
 * Götz Neuneck
 * Alexander Nikitin
 * Niu Qiang
 * Pan Zhengqiang
 * Yuri Ryzhov
 * Ivo Slaus
 * Mark Byung-Moon Suh
 * Tatsujiro Suzuki
 * Bob van der Zwaan

Contact

 * Web: http://www.pugwash.org

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 * George W. Rathjens
 * Jerome B. Wiesner
 * Medact
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